I feel like I'm getting yet another slow start to the day.
I don't know if it's just a result of getting older, or maybe I have some underlying medical issue but I struggle to find much energy to get going on anything. Then again, could be that it's just the current burst of heat around here, which we are not used to!
So I had good intentions of resuming some version of my old "morning journal" habit, basically writing writing our thoughts and impressions before doing anything else to "pollute" my mind with other business and social media distractions.
History will now show that attempt lasted precisely one day and then there was a six-day gap. It just seems like evidence that I just don't have time for anything.
Maybe I should just be satisfied with the idea that it will be sporadic, at best...
We did our usual morning rounds of the garden and had some breakfast and now I'm sitting here trying to motivate myself to get starting on something.
My primary hopes for this day was to get going on marketing for Alchemy Atones, with the intention of having some kind of plan in place by the time we head to the Festival in Oregon about 10 days from now, but I'm feeling very distracted by all the other things that all have to be done, such as:
- Going through all my eBay accounts and pack up a few things to ship tonmorrow.
- I need to finish end of month and end of quarter accounting.
- I should really take a trip down to the local beach to pick up some particular types of stones to be painted ahead of the event we're going to later in July.
- There are bills to be paid, and I have to calculate whether I can afford to make an extra payment on any of the credit cards.
- I'd also like to write and store some posts for future publication while we're away but that seems a million miles away.
- The lawn needs mowing, which I should really do before it gets too hot.
It's a pretty normal situation I work with. I have something I want to accomplish, but all the "secondary" things that have to be done keep me from actually being able to get to the primary things.
I did get pretty far with some bookkeeping yesterday. It was pretty depressing.
Our crypto portfolio led the way, losing $2239 in value. On the expense side we had an unexpected $840 car repair bill, and an unexpected $530 vet bill to take our dog Daisy to the vet for one final time. Our home insurance premiums rose from $117.67/month to $181.33/month with absolutely nothing having changed on the policy. Our HOA has decided they need to "build a reserve" for contingency major expenses, meaning that our quarterly payments starting in September will be $118 higher.
When you're not doing very well to begin with that kind of month just makes you wonder why you are even bothering. There's nothing I work with that is up, except the cost of living!
From a financial standpoint, there are quite a few things we'd really like to be doing, as well as a few things that really have to get done, And the sad reality seems to be that none of the "like to" things are going to get done and many of the "have to" things won't even get done.
As an analogy, it feels very much like it's not a question of whether you're going to down, but of when and how you're going to drown. There's only one potential outcome there.
I'm not sure how I feel about being part of the US statistic that continues to show the ostensible "middle class" becoming part of the growing "underclass" that lives perpetually in some form of poverty.
But enough speculation on that! It makes more sense that I start working on my day than just writing about my day!
Till the next one!
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